MSE News: A 32-year-old sandwich toaster and a 1960s kettle...

Primrose

Still have the 1939 Westclock wind up alarm clock my parents were given as a wedding present. It’s one of the few things I have left to remind me of them. It,s still in working order and has a very loud tick.. I sat for days with it ticking away relentlessly as my dad lay dying with it by his bedside . Never have I been so conscious of the last moments of life slipping by.

pogofish

My sandwich toaster must be well over thirty years old - it was one of the first items I treated myself to after I bought my house and the only reason I disposed of my Kenwood mixer (bought shortly after) a few years back was because the plastic had yellowed very badly - It was still working well despite looking manky. Certainly better than the cheap item that replaced it.

chattychappy

Bought a Bissell carpet washer. Took a bottle of fluid and washed my mother's carpets. When I ran out, she said she had some more fluid that her mother bought.

Sure enough.. she had kept this bottle of cleaning fluid waiting for the day she would get a carpet washer. It was even Bissell branded. Her mother died in 1974.

Gloomendoom

I don’t think you can count furniture. Looked after is doesn’t wear out. We have some in daily use that is over 200 years old. Our hall clock is of a similar vintage.

haras_nosirrah

I have the tv I got for my 8th birthday in the kitchen. I am now 35. Still works perfectly well

our posh snazzy expensive flat screen smart tv's - 1 has lasted 1 year and one has lasted 2. Thank god for the john lewes 5 yr guarantee

Deep_In_Debt

thecoffeehouse204 wrote: »

My mum is still using her nearly 30 year old matsui microwave, had a stint in the garage after I won a newer one for her but came back out when that one blew up!

I had my Matsui microwave for nearly 25 years and it was still working well when I got rid of it 4 years ago. Only got rid of it because I was having a new kitchen fitted with new appliances. My current microwave is not nearly as good.

Kim_13

My parents have a 1980s fridge still, plus a TV of a similar age that was still being used until the analogue signal was turned off. No way of connecting Freeview to it unfortunately, as it doesn't have a scart socket.

societys_child

I've got a Freeview box somewhere that connects the aerial socket, no scart required. Don't give up hope

AylesburyDuck

I have a Hostess Trolly that was purchased some time in the 70's by my late aunt.
Still gets used a handful of times a year and frankly i couldnt cope at Christmas/New Year without it.

SingleSue

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Not exactly an appliance but I've got a wardrobe that I first had 36 years ago, which we had from my mums when we first got married

I have a Matsui microwave (seems to be a theme) which I purchased 3rd hand from a friend almost 20 years ago, she had had it several years and her mum several years before that.

My tumble dryer is coming up for 22 years old, the door broke about 19 years ago and has been held shut with a paintmate ever since.

I also have an electric carving knife, no idea how old but it looks like something from the 60's! I've personally had it for 12 years now but mum had it for years in her pantry (and it was used annually for Christmas when I was a child) and was going to chuck it out after it had been sitting there doing nothing for a while as dad had switched to a carving knife for the Christmas dinner. Unfortunately, dad suffered a stroke 3 years later and they had to get another one (it was offered back to them but mum wanted new)